 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...merit ere it dies ; Such as I oft have chnnced to espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. ID every village marked with little spire. Embowered...trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, ami mean attire, A matron old, whom we pchoolinistre^t* name ; Who boasts unruly brats... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...his morrow ; Naught may endure but mutability. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. STANZAS FROM "THE SCHOOLMISTRESS." IN every village marked with little spire, Embowered...trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats with... | |
 | Francis Adams - Education - 1882 - 370 pages
...was during the same period that Shenstone wrote his familiar description of village schools :— " In every village, marked with little spire, Embowered...in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name." It is clear from one of the... | |
 | Francis Adams - Education - 1882 - 372 pages
...was during the same period that Shenstone wrote his familiar description of village schools : — " In every village, marked with little spire, Embowered...in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name." It is clear from one of the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...merit ere it dies, Such as I oft have chancíd to espy Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. / Tiler« dwells, in lowly shades and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Seliool-mistress name ; Who... | |
 | Theodore Compton - Mendip Hills (England) - 1882 - 224 pages
...distance from the village. Further north is seen one of the few Somersetshire examples of Shenstone's village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. Congresbury spire is a pleasing feature in the landscape. According to Camden, the name is taken from... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1883 - 984 pages
...village marked with little spire. Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old. whom we school-mistress...name; Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame: They grieveu sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame; And oftentimes, on... | |
 | William Thomas Davis - Massachusetts - 1883 - 698 pages
...has a tender recollection of the bench and spelling-book of his infant school and realizes that — " In every village marked with little spire, Embowered...in trees and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lowly cot and plain attire A matron old, whom we school-mistress name." Among the earliest of the teachers... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1883 - 934 pages
...marked with little epire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly ehed, and mean attire, A matron old. whom we school-mistress name; Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tamn: They jrrieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power oí this relentless dame; And... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress...tame; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame, And oft times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
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In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name : Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame... 
